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We've been waiting for months now, anxiously pacing around our living rooms and marking off our calendars — and finally, this Sunday and Monday, we'll get our first look at the highly anticipated, two-part premiere of the Breaking Bad spin-off Better Call Saul. The question is not whether this prequel series about the misadventures of Walter White's shady attorney will be better than Breaking — roughly 99 percent of TV shows out there wouldn't meet that standard, so we're not going to judge it on that merit. Rather, it's whether Saul will become one of those shows that sprung from a former TV hit and then went on to achieve small-screen glory on its own.

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